Fairy Tales in the Forrest.

So there are days when you just want to shoot for fun, when Dani came up with a great idea lets put some girls in cute little outfits and have a bit of fun. Well I had been looking for the chance to have a little fun after the end of the Spring bride season. So when this offer came up as you can guess I was in boots and all.

Shari and Scott 15th October 2010

It's Friday and it's wet oh! is it wet, today was to be a bluff top wedding with the reception on the roof of Villa Mar Corlina, but that is not what took place, It's funny how things turn out and I sit there watching them unfold, this was a small family wedding, Shari and Scott came to me because they have this cute little VW car that they have been doing up for the last couple of years, it is there pride and joy and they wanted it in there wedding and photos, a big landscape with the beach, island, car and them, one great photo to hang on there wall, not your normal wedding photos, just this one photo,
So on there Friday it rained, I was sitting there thinking what will we do and then it happened 4.30 pm on clue it stopped, it stopped raining, I could not believe it, it had been pelting all day, and now it stops, I looked at Scott, Scott looked at me, and then we both looked at Shari, "Get in the car lets do this thing". We had the spot, we had the practise, now we just need to get there before the sun went down, while there was some light in the sky,





As we pulled up I could see the sky lighting up, to say we where rushed would be an understatement 15 mins we got, we had a couple of extra people hanging around everyone got a job, and yes I believe we nailed it.




By the time we left the beach it was dark, I was flat out seeing the couple walking hand in hand up the beach, but we got the photo, we got there landscape with there little car,

Ammy and Mark 9th October 2010

You know I go to weddings to take photos for couples, and every time one person in the party is a star, the character, the I am the actor, there is aways one you just have to work out which one that is, this time it was the groom he was a funny bugger, see I have this little rule and it goes like this, after the ceremony when the family photos are done yes you can have beer, bring your drinks with you and just put them down when you are in the photo or behind you back or in this case behind your wife's back, Mark was not letting go of that beer, cracks me up.
So it was a windy Saturday lunch we all meet at the beach,





Ammy and Mark have the cuties kids,

Amanda and Sof 25th September 2010

I rolled over early Saturday morning and it was pelting down wet, wet, wet, it had been for days you think it would stop for brides on Saturdays, but it doesn't it does rain on Saturdays to make wedding photographers better at there job, we have to try harder to find light, its there you just have to look harder or make it yourself.
So today was Amanda and Sof's wet wedding day, a Greek wedding I was a little excited about this, after a quick scout around town looking for dry spots we headed to the Leichart Hotel, I had dropped in to say hello the night before, and there it was a red couch, wow! that would be fun.





And so it rained all day, and then just as all the brides in Rockhampton came out of there churches it stoped for 1 Hour 30 minutes the sunshine happened, and then as then sun went down the rain came back, there where brides everywhere we looked 5 I think we counted its September it's bride month, and there we all where grabbing the sun.



What a beautiful church,

Now it would be an understatement to say that Sof made me work for every photo but what happen while he was mucking up was a chemistry between Amanda and Sof that went straight down the camera lens. It truly was amazing, I was standing there snapping away while Sof played around not one bit interested in my ploys for him to stand here, move there, this young lad had just married the love of his life and she was standing there in this beautiful dress looking just magic, and well he just wanted to play with her and so he did, and well I just snapped and snapped, It worked.

and then he danced, he danced his Greek dance for his new wife, and I just stood there gobbed smacked that I was the lucky one capturing this.



So I headed home, thinking to myself how lucky I am to spend time with people on there wedding days, what started as a wet Saturday ended up to be a great day.